The Razorbacks (12-14, 5-8) lost for the third straight time, this time to a depleted Tigers relying on 6-7, 250-pound Cinmeon Bowers to run the point. Bowers drove and dished to Lang for two killing threes from the corner just 40 seconds apart as the visitors pulled ahead 83-79 with 1:55 to play.

Brown canned 9 of 14 threes for all of his 27 points. Lang made 5 of 6 threes for 17 points. He drained a long three at the 1:14 mark to make it 86-81. Arkansas guard Anton Beard missed a tying three with 24 seconds.

Arkansas coach Mike Anderson was disappointed the Hogs left Brown in the late stages of the game in an attempt to stop Bowers on drives.

"Our instructions were to stay solid," Anderson said of the gambles.

Earlier, Anderson said, "I was disappointed with our defense. We had a lot of breakdowns. We talk about playing tough at the rim. We didn't."

Senior guard Jabril Durham said he was guilty of some of the breakdowns.

"This hurts a lot," Durham said. "We had a chance to put the game away on multiple occasions. I made bone head mistakes and left my man for made threes. I gambled going for steals."

The Hogs -- up by as much as nine with 13 minutes left -- still led 71-64 on Beard's two free throws with 7:48 to play. Tyler Harris missed two free throws for the Tigers, but the second was rebounded and went to Brown for a long three.

"That was a big momentum swing there," Anderson said. "Up by seven, you have to get that rebound.

"We take pride in defending home court. We didn't do it.

"The difference in the game, we didn't make free throws. We don't have a lot of margin for error. We went to the line with a chance to keep them at bay and we didn't make them."

Moses Kingsley led the Hogs with 20 points, but was just 6 of 14 from the foul line. He made only 2 of his first 9 from the foul line.

Arkansas made just 19 of 31 free throws. Auburn was worse, with 9 of 18. But the Tigers made 65 percent on threes, 61 percent overall.

Auburn coach Bruce Pearl mentioned the hot shooting, despite fatigue.

"We played basically with six and there was a lot of fatigue," he said. "Arkansas makes you play up and down. We were exhausted at the end, but obviously we shot it great. We had six guys play well.

"When you play Arkansas you are going to have to match their energy. If you don't, Arkansas is going to run you out of this pla

Arkansas made just 10 of 29 field goal attempts after halftime when the game was tied 46-46.